Thursday, 19 July 2012

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it on here before, but me, Mary, Sarah, Mimi and Lia got tickets to the London Olympics a while ago (Women's field hockey, what else?). Anywhom, we depart for London in the early hours of tomorrow morning. We're all packed and ready to go and the excitement is showing!
Mimi's the only one in our little group who's ever been outside Canada, so it's an adventure for us all. The main problem seems to be deciding what to do once we're there. We have around two weeks there, and far more than two weeks worth of things we want to do in Merrie Olde England.

Whatever we end up doing, I know none of us will ever forget it and with a little luck, we'll get to see our country win something.

I should add that I likely won't blog from London, I'll be too busy with British things, hehe. Although, I might, you never know.

Monday, 16 July 2012

As I'm guessing you know, I'm a vegetarian type. I've been vegetarian for a while now, yet I'm no longer certain I want to continue.

I first went vegetarian for health reasons and my reasonably flat stomach proves that it worked. Yet nowadays my willpower is lapsing. Actual meat such as steak, hamburgers, hot dogs and the like don't tempt me at all, yet seafood REALLY does.
Me and my friends went to the Octopuses Garden the other day (It's a Japanese restaurant if you were wondering) and it was all I could do not to steal some prawn tempura from Lia's plate.

I don't know how everyone out there feels about this, but I feel kind of bad that my vegetarian days may be coming to an end. Even if they do, it's likely that I'll only go pescetarian, not full omnivore however.

So this is what it is really. If anyone reading this has strong thoughts one way or the other, let me know because I'm really not having an easy time deciding this on my own.

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

The name may be confusing to non-Lightfoot fans, but all shall become clear very soon.

As any readers of this blog will know, I've recently returned home from uni. Mary had a surprise for me that I would never have expected.
It turns out she learned to play the guitar (Not to professional level, but well enough), and when I returned, she played me a love song, which I'll be my best honest, made me cry.

The tune was Christian Island by Gordon Lightfoot, but she modified the lyrics to make it about us. She has a really beautiful singing voice.

Below are the lyrics as she sang them, if you want to know the original lyrics, Google is your friend, hehe.

I'm sailing down the summer windMy mouth is in a grinAnd I like the mood I'm inAs I while away the time of dayIn the lee of Bowen Island Tall and strong she dips and reelsThrough all kinds of ordealsAnd she tells me how she feelsShe's a good old boat and she'll stay afloatThrough the toughest gales and keep smilin'But for one more day she would like to stayIn the lee of Bowen Island

I'm sailing down the summer dayWhere the fish and seagulls playI put my troubles all away

Because once again I'm with the girl of kin

From the Algarve and the HighlandsShe's a good old ship and she'll make the tripFrom the lee of Bowen Island

Tall and strong she slips alongI sing for her a songAnd she leans into the windShe's a good old boat and she'll stay afloatThrough the toughest gales and keep smilin'When the summer ends we will rest againIn the lee of Bowen IslandI wanted to post a video of her singing it, but she insisted it was just for me to hear and I'm okay with that, but she okayed me posting the lyrics.So that's all really, I just wanted to post this as I found it amazingly sweet.Love-Holly